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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Hands-On Preview (GameFront)

For much of the past year, it’s been fashionable to use Diablo III as a standard for other action RPGs, but probably not in the way Blizzard intended. Players of Torchlight II occasionally voiced dissatisfaction with the series’ Pixar-esque aesthetic, but developer Runic Games’ effort was almost universally praised for its singular focus on loot drops over Diablo III’s auction house convenience. Adventurers in Path of Exile occasionally bemoaned its forgettable story–not to mention the absence of pants–but lauded its grim ambiance that hearkened back to the glory days of Diablo II.